August 2013 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] What is the "official" way to mount floppy in openSUSE 12.x?
by Istvan Gabor 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

Hello: The subject says the question. [In pre 12 suse versions I had a /media/floppy directory where the floppy could be mounted at (by using the floppy icon on KDE3's desktop). In 12.x there is no such directory, and if created it will be removed at next boot, as I know correctly. Of course I could make a floppy dir under / or somewhere else, but I'd prefer its location to be in /media, since floppy is a media. Why should it be then outside of media dir?] What is the official way of mounting floppy in 12.x.? I have openSUSE 12.1 with KDE3 currently. Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] opensuse12.3 - cannot make ext drive available to all users
by John King 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

We recently upgraded our office desktop to opensuse 12.3, and have run into a problem with external drives. Our office desktop is used by several people during the day; each user has her/his own account, and users switch between them with the usual ctrl+alt+Fn combination. Most of our data is stored on an external drive. The first user plugs it in, and the last user of the day ejects it and stores it away securely. At least, that's what used to happen with opensuse 12.2. Since moving to 12.3, we find we can't do that. The first user has sole use of the drive in /var/run/media/<username1>, and other users have no access, which means they cannot access or update our data. Is there any (fairly straightforward) way we can restore the previous behaviour, and allow multiple users to access the external drive? John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Missing of a better power management for laptop
by Marco Calistri 28 Sep '13

28 Sep '13

Hello OpenSuSers, IMHO, we are missing an acoustic alarm as well as a really working hibernate or suspend function in 12.3. It is very annoying being sudden logged out by the system powering down without the possibility to be warned in advance (by acoustic alarm) or to restart exactly from the point wherein you have been logged off by critical battery level. So far I'm experiencing these issues in my opensuse 12.3. Sorry to have to admit thhat ones again Windows appears to be more versatile on this matter. Cheers, -- Marco Calistri (amdturion) opensuse 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64 bit - Kernel 3.7.10-1.16-desktop Gnome 3.6.2 Intel® Core™ i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz × 4 - Intel® Sandybridge Mobile -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Any chance of convincing Gimp to consider a .png as a valid saved image?
by Carlos E. R. 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I scan images using gimp and xsane. If I scan a dozen images, I have to keep track of what I save to PNG or JPG, because GIMP insists that none are saved and that I'm going to lose my data. It wants me to save as XCF and I will not. Any chance of changing this behavior? It is disruptive. :-/ - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlHCCdwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XPmgCfcKcEp+zwhwAoA9YVsui6dcZz Tx8AnRMR4Ju/C9yUQzEzZl9T251V0/9U =Swfv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Ancient laptop display goes black and does not recover (i845 graphics)
by Carlos E. R. 08 Sep '13

08 Sep '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1308312009350.7832(a)Telcontar.valinor> Hi, I have an ancient laptop ("Airis GEA N619", with Pentium IV (32 bit), 512 MiB ram, 80 GB HD), running openSUSE 12.3. The screen goes dark after some time both in text mode and X mode (graphics). I think it powers down the display. When this happens, I don't know how to wake it up. The laptop is active, I work on it via ssh, and it is running fine - but no display. I can blind type on it, too (if I know which terminal has a free prompt) In X I might be able to configure out DPMS. But text mode? I've never heard how to configure that in text mode. :-? Or any command to force the display to wake up? I tried the blue keys (Fn) on the laptop. No go. Actually one of them kills the machine further, it goes to sleep and it has no battery (guess). Video is "Intel Corporation i845" from "Uniwill Computer Corp". The doc says "Intel® Extreme Graphics". Display has no EDID info. AmonLanc:~ # hwinfo --gfxcard 10: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.319] Unique ID: _Znp.Ggh6IG4j794 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "Intel i845" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x2562 "i845" SubVendor: pci 0x1584 "Uniwill Computer Corp" SubDevice: pci 0x9000 Revision: 0x03 Driver: "i915" Driver Modules: "drm" Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd7ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xdff80000-0xdfffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 16 (30733 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00002562sv00001584sd00009000bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel Driver Info #1: XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel 3D Support: yes Extensions: dri Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Primary display adapter: #10 AmonLanc:~ # AmonLanc:~ # hwinfo --monitor AmonLanc:~ # So, no info at all about the "monitor" or display. AmonLanc:~ # cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.7.10-1.16-default root=UUID=... resume=/dev/disk/by-label/Swap showopts splash=verbose loglevel=3 console=tty1 vga=791 AmonLanc:~ # The parameter "vga=791" is necesary, or display goes into unsuported modes, or lower resolution modes. The parameter "display=..." does not work here. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIiNBIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WoEQCcC9RePDMDJH+Wqr+exLumSSF8 N1AAnRn1wbmPyWc6ZL2vTmgI9NLnlswS =4blD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse] Extrange change in "/etc/sysconfig/clock"
by Carlos E. R. 06 Sep '13

06 Sep '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This paragraph: ## Path: System/Environment/Clock ## Description: Information about your timezone and time ## Type: string(-u,--utc,--localtime) ## ServiceRestart: boot.clock ## Command: /sbin/refresh_initrd # # Set to "-u" if your system clock is set to UTC, and to "--localtime" # if your clock runs that way. # HWCLOCK="-u" has been replaced with ## Path: System/Environment/Clock ## Description: Information about your timezone and time ## Type: string(Europe/Berlin,Europe/London,Europe/Paris) ## ServiceRestart: boot.clock ## Command: /sbin/refresh_initrd # # Be aware that the time reference of the CMOS/HW clock has been # forwarded to /etc/adjtime, the file used by hwclock(8) and # systemd(1) as reference for the CMOS/HW clock. Ie, the «HWCLOCK="-u"» line has dissapeared - in two different computers running 12.3, at least. The variable is important, it is sourced in "/etc/init.d/ntp" (script which still exists). Is this intentional, or is it a bug? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIfk8IACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UL6wCeKfu6Fq+UEzj7SyzlAnu1GORu FS8An3SaZS7FxjwCHQDNsY3hWKH5OoLn =l2Io -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[opensuse] opensuse web site down?
by jdd 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

or it's me? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] nmbd does not start at boot in openSUSE 12.2-SOLVED
by Istvan Gabor 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

2013. augusztus 24. 12:48 napon Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar(a)gmail.com> írta: > > What should I do if I wanted to start nmb through the script and not by the boot.local? > > Just like in the sysvinit case, you need to explicitly configure it to > be started during boot. Think of /etc/systemd/system as > of /etc/init.d. Having script there is not enough to make script run > on startup; you also need to link it in proper "run-level". If service > file has correct [Install] section, you can do it using "systemctl > enable nmbd.service" (similar to chkconfig nmbd on). If service file > does not have [Install] section, you can manually link it > into /etc/systemd/system/default.target.wants (or > multi-user.target.wants) so that service is started wherever you boot. > Again, this is exactly the same with sysvinit scripts lacking meta > information for chkconfig - you manually link into > respective /etc/init.d/rc?.d directory. > Andrey, sorry for the late answer. Thanks for your explanation. I looked at the service files and they have [Install] section. I applied systemctl enable: # systemctl enable nmb.service ln -s '/etc/systemd/system/nmb.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/nmb.service' # systemctl enable smb.service ln -s '/etc/systemd/system/smb.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/smb.service' # systemctl enable winbind.service ln -s '/etc/systemd/system/winbind.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/winbind.service' But the service are still not started. # systemctl status nmb.service nmb.service - Samba NMB Daemon Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/nmb.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: resources) since Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:46:41 +0200; 13min ago CGroup: name=systemd:/system/nmb.service # systemctl status smb.service smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/smb.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: resources) since Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:43:19 +0200; 18min ago CGroup: name=systemd:/system/smb.service Aug 30 13:43:18 linux smbd[3765]: [2013/08/30 13:43:18.971776, 0] lib/pidfile.c:118(pidfile_create) # I can't start them manually either: # systemctl start nmb.service Job failed. See system journal and 'systemctl status' for details. # # systemctl start smb.service Job failed. See system journal and 'systemctl status' for details # Here are the contents of service files: # cat /etc/systemd/system/nmb.service [Unit] Description=Samba NMB Daemon After=syslog.target network.target [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/run/nmbd.pid EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/samba ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nmbd $NMBDOPTIONS [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target # # # cat /etc/systemd/system/smb.service [Unit] Description=Samba SMB Daemon After=syslog.target network.target nmb.service winbind.service [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/run/smbd.pid LimitNOFILE=16384 EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/samba ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smbd $SMBDOPTIONS [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Should I edit the service files? Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Is it possible to send email with postfix without DNS?
by Carlos E. R. 01 Sep '13

01 Sep '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I want to send email from one local computer to another one, without setting up DNS, but it fails: AmonLanc:~ # mail cer(a)telcontar.valinor Subject: hola texto . EOT AmonLanc:~ # 2013-08-31T19:51:04.530239+02:00 AmonLanc postfix/qmgr[2299]: 5FC09486D2: from=<root(a)AmonLanc.valinor>, size=432, nrcpt=1 (queue active) 2013-08-31T19:51:05.999838+02:00 AmonLanc postfix/smtp[20364]: 5FC09486D2: to=<cer(a)telcontar.valinor>, relay=none, delay=1.7, delays=0.34/0.06/1.3/0, dsn=5.4.4, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=telcontar.valinor type=AAAA: Host not found) The destination address is solvable to ping, but not to "host", because the later uses DNS. So far, my only solution is to implement a DNS server, but I hesitate to do it as this machine has little ram (500M). Some people claimed to make postfix work with only the /etc/hosts file, but it does not work for me. Or perhaps I misunderstood. I have in "/etc/nsswitch.conf": networks: files dns - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIiL28ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9U3ZQCgimgDjzlVjsTQiOSCGI0tqmy9 TX8An0/6R1pF97zLvS9k/V/aQ4W3EwyH =fEeH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] bibletime : some library must have changed , after zypper update
by ellanios82 01 Sep '13

01 Sep '13

Hi All - until recently, bibletime-2.9.1-2.1.2.i586 performed correctly but, after an initial high-speed blink of text, the page is blank, not showing any text. - a CLI program 'execute' command, reveals the message : " ERROR: corrupt data during decompression." ................... best regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner(a)opensuse.org

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